One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

Quote by Gertrude Stein

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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie...

You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie...

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to...

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to...

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that...

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that...

An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work

An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work

Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a...

Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a...

The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and...

The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and...

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with...

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with...

Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you...

Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you...

Let me listen to me and not to them.

Let me listen to me and not to them.

There is no there there.

There is no there there.

That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is...

That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is...

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to...

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to...

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.

Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.

The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is...

The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is...

I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is...

I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is...

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream,...

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream,...

I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there...

I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there...